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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
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Subject: Re: PCDOS 2.1 cluster size querry
Message-ID: <508@well.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 01:43:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 01:43:02 1986
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In article <277@utastro.UUCP>, nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
> In article <1519@brl-tgr.ARPA>, kdale@vaihingen-emh.arpa (Keith Dale) writes:
> > Can anyone tell me offhand what the cluster size is for 10MB hard drives
> > formatted with IBM's PC-DOS 2.1?  It's either 2k or 4k, but I can't remember
> > which.  Thanks!
>
> It's 4K on a 10MB disk and 8K (!) on a 20MB disk.  So if you have a bunch of
> little files ( <4K ) on a 10MB disk and move to a 20MB for more room, you
> will be seriously disappointed.  On a 20MB disk, a 1 byte file wastes 8191
> bytes of storage!
>
    Yet another good reason to go to DOS 3.1, which gives you 2K clusters
on a 20MB disk (16-bit FAT entries instead of 12-bit).

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